Too many prisoners admitted to external care facilities and fewer and fewer personnel on duty in the Uta prison. "All this in the total silence of Sardinian politics."
"Here we are again, the system can no longer hold up", denounces Sinappe, the autonomous national union of Penitentiary Police.
"Currently - the deputy regional secretary Giacomo Mascia reports - there are seven inmates hospitalized in an external care facility, where 52 police officers are employed to ensure security, covering shifts 24 hours a day. In this way, any type of work organization is lost, with personnel who see all subjective rights, holidays and rest days revoked. A system like this can no longer hold up and go forward; the psycho-physical conditions of the personnel cannot hold up for much longer, the immediate opening of the hospital detention unit is urgently needed, ready but never delivered ."
"In Sardinian prisons - he continues - the number of mentally unstable prisoners and inmates has reached unacceptable numbers, with a dramatic increase in hospital admissions, and too often with attacks on Penitentiary Police personnel and Health Workers because they are forced to work in conditions of extreme discomfort since the prisoners or inmates are hospitalized in hospital wards together with ordinary patients. Unfortunately, the island's politicians continue to pretend not to hear, consequently also increasing the cost of state spending which inevitably has repercussions on all taxpayers".
Then the appeal: « An urgent meeting with the President of the Sardinia Region and with the Health Councilor, we are willing to take to the streets and maintain a garrison under the region until they solve the problem . The Women and Men of the Penitentiary Police have been waiting for too long for answers to improve the Institutional service that they find themselves guaranteeing inside the city hospitals without detention wards, to be able to work safely without putting anyone's life at risk».
(Online Union)